The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter articles from September 2010

The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter archives from September 2010

Young children with severe behavioral problems at home: a case for psychiatric partial hospital treatment.(Preschoolers)(Clinical report)
September 1, 2010... Recent epidemiological studies have suggested that psychiatric disorders in preschool-aged children are quite common, with prevalence estimates between 16-21% (Egger & Angold, 2006). Moreover, approximately 12% of preschool-aged children...

Suicide risk assessment and prevention in children and adolescents.(Suicide)
September 1, 2010... Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults ages 12 to 24. In particular, thoughts of suicide are relatively common among high school students, and of those who act on these thoughts, risk of successfully...

... Compulsive internet use among adolescents.(Keep your eye on ...)(Brief article)
September 1, 2010... A recent study explored the relationship between time spent on various Internet applications and compulsive Internet use (CIU) in a large sample of Dutch adolescents. Antonius J. van Rooji, M.Sc., and colleagues employed data from the ongoing...

... Persistence of sleep disordered breathing in preadolescence.(Keep your eye on ...)(Brief article)
September 1, 2010... In the ongoing Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study (TuCASA), James L. Goodwin, Ph.D., and colleagues "investigate the physiological, anatomic, and behavioral correlates of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and document their changes...

Adolescent outcomes of childhood ADHD.(What's New in Research)(Report)
September 1, 2010... With their recently published case-control study, Regina Bussing, M.D., and colleagues aimed to address gaps in current knowledge regarding adolescent outcomes of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Unlike earlier...

Psychological adjustment of teens in planned lesbian families.(What's New in Research)(Report)
September 1, 2010... Nanette Gartrell, M.D., and Henny Bos, Ph.D., recently published results from the ongoing National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), the first longitudinal study to examine the psychological well-being of offspring raised in "planned"...

Sentencing juveniles to life without the possibility of parole.(Editorial)
September 1, 2010... Last May, the Supreme Court ruled that sentencing juveniles to life without the possibility of parole was a violation of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and thus unconstitutional. My reaction was to heave a sigh of...

What is Tourette syndrome?(Disease/Disorder overview)
September 1, 2010... Tourette syndrome (TS) [also known as Tourette's syndrome, Tourette's disorder, or Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (GTS)] is a neurologic syndrome. The essential feature of TS is multiple tics that are sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic,...